On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Daniel Drennan <daniel.dren...@jamaalyad.org> wrote: > I should rephrase: I'm happy with fink, and appreciate above all the help > here. Especially after trying MacPorts, which basically assumes User status > and hijacks ownership of applications.... > > I think actually the problem is CPAN, and the difference in starting out with > a gcc 3 compiled base and trying to build on top of that/upgrade modules from > there. So now I want to keep everything separated. > > I noticed that fink just "went with the flow" using the 5.8.6 perl. And this > worked fine. But then eventually something wasn't right; again, likely on the > CPAN side. Maybe I'm just not able to get a synergy between CPAN and fink > going.... > > In any event I noticed in Fink Commander an option in preferences to "point > to Perl" by establishing a path to the desired Perl, but I couldn't get this > to work (no dialogue box comes up). I didn't notice this in any documentation > for command-line fink. > > So I guess that was more my question: I'm happy with fink, want to use it, > but am wondering if it is possible to set it up from its installation onward > to work with a Perl that I define, separate from the system Perl. > > Thanks as always! > > d. >
There are two issues here: 1) You can certainly hack all of the perl modules in /sw/lib/perl5/Fink to have the "fink" tool use a different interpreter, via their "#!" lines. That's pretty easy. I believe the Fink Commander Perl Interpreter Preference item does something different, but to the same end. I don't think it even bothers with a dialogue, because it's a noninvasive process which doesn't affect command-line operation. 2) If you want "Fink", the distribution, to build modules against your external Perl, you have to do a _lot_ more hacking. As things stand now, anything that wants perl-5.8.8 will install Fink's "perl588", period; and anything that uses a built-in Perl instead of Fink's will use Apple's perl-5.8.6, period. -- Alexander K. Hansen akh AT finkproject DOT org Fink User Liaison and Documenter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
